I think understanding and adhering to each lender's underwriting requirements is a worthy trade-off for that.I actually often agree with most of their requirements. 

By trade, I am an Family Law Attorney; however, Real Estate is my main passion, so I made the switch about a year and half ago.  

We have a popular buy/sell/trade website for our county and city that is a popular place for posting rental vacancies.

My partners and I started in smaller cities and towns (Waterloo, Edmonton, Hamilton), but we've been consolidating our efforts in Toronto over the past 5-7 years.There is a trade-off between cash flow returns and equity growth and when I started investing in the early 2000's, I was solely focused on cash flow and cap rates.

Stocks very close to overvalued if not already, bonds stink in a rising interest rate environment, real estate is risky now(home prices bounced well above the trend line)and way below normal on yield.R.e. notes may be the only thing to consider unless you are brave enough for bitcoin 

Assuming that you are not a general contractor by trade, you can either gamble big money that a house is ok, or you can accept that you will lose an occasional deal to some maniac who doesn't want to do an inspection. 

Would there be anyone out there in the BP community that would be interested in attending so we can trade ideas and share marketing tips.

You might sort out a trade. 

https://www.menards.com/main/window-treatments/blinds-shades/vinyl-blinds/intercrown-trade-1-light-filtering-filtering-corded-vinyl-blind-42-length/mb2342-wh/p-1444436054020-c-9236.htm?

if the other party Is paying and she is going to fork over her deposit seems like a fair trade to me.